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Andromeda 2.8 FAQ
What’s it called?
“Into the Labyrinth.”
Who’s responsible?
Teleplay is credited to storyline strongmen Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz (“Devil Take the Hindmost,” “Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way”).
When does it air?
We’re told most markets will debut it today, Saturday, Dec. 1.
What does TV Guide say?
“A Nietzchean helps battle an attack on the ship by aliens after Harper's database.”
James Marsters is in this? The guy who plays Spike on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”?
That's the guy! The erstwhile slayer love interest reportedly filmed his part in Vancouver last summer before starting work on “Buffy’s” sixth-season opener.
Does Marsters, born and bred in Northern California, use the English accent, or does he revert to Yank?
As the episode wears on, the accent seems to grow strangely more mid-Atlantic.
Is this at least better than that horrible VH1 horror-anthology episode thing Marsters did with Roger Daltry last summer?
No contest. This is actually one of “Andromeda’s” best episodes (and reportedly, due to its complexity and reliance on continuity, one of two episodes responsible for co-creator Robert Hewitt Wolfe’s ouster from the series).
The big surprise?
Marsters isn’t by any means the most prominent guest star this week. His part is certainly a juicy one (he plays Field Marshall Charlamagne Bolivar, a wily and bemused Nietzschean who unexpectedly crashes the reconstituted Commonwealth’s mutual defense conference), but the real focus is on the insanely sexy Satrina Leander (Judy Tylor), a mysterious cyber-amazon out to seduce Harper into turning over that highly sensitive data library he acquired in “Harper 2.0.”
The cyberbabe is more fun than Marsters?
She sneaks into Harper’s room, gives him a big wet one, throws him down, straddles him with her long skinny thighs, reaches into his abdomen, and removes one of the 13 deadly magog larvae that have been nesting inside Harper since the end of season one.
Just like that? Is this a dream? Or an imaginary story?
Nope. And Satrina will use her unique talents to remove more magoglings from Harper!
Will Harper be rid of all his death-sentence parasites by episode’s end?
That would be telling.
What else can’t you talk about?
Harper seems to remember, from the H2.0 data, a telling piece of Trance’s complicated and mysterious history! There's nakedness involved!!!
Does cyberbabe get more screen time than Marsters?
Decidedly. I would guess he’s onscreen less than five minutes total. He's definitely more icing than cake - but what icing!
What’s good?
Trance and Rommie, as always, but especially Trance this week. Judy Tylor is really, really hot. Trance hot. Rommie hot. She enjoys the straddling of strangers. James Marsters is really, really cool. Harper’s dilemma is a great one, and it’s fun to watch him do battle with himself and others.
What’s not so good?
Seamus Harper’s a decent character, but the actor who plays him might get more milage out of the role if he turned the performance down a notch or two every once in a while. Who’s this guy’s drama coach, Jamie Farr?
Herc’s rating for “Andromeda” 2.8?
***1/2
The Hercules T. Strong Rating System:
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Dec 01, 2001 6:18:27 AM CST
Forget catchphrases, forget Dawn in HOTPANTS, forget cheeting on
by it's a duck
We need paragraph breaks, or a wordcap, or nested posts. Oh, and nevermind what I said about forgetting Dawn and the hotpants - that's just crazy talk.
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"Ridiculous Lucky Captain Rabbit King. Lucky Captain Rabbit King Nuggets are for the youth!"... also, I used to think the primary problem with the character of "Seamus" was that he is written as a guy who aspires to be a Kirk/Riker-esque womainizer, yet I suspected that Gordon "P.J. Gord" Woolvett was gay (his role in BRIDE OF CHUCKY completely destroyed his "Het-Credibility" in my mind), and was thus overcompensating. I was quite surprised when I found out on IMDB that he's married, and has a son, born in July. Maybe he took the advice of the Bloodhound Gang song, and acted gay all this time, just so he could get all the chicks.
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I agree, that was one of the better episodes. So the episodes are going to get worse? More Herc centric? What was wrong with that episode? That ruled! WTF Kev boy-oh? It's called a plot, it's called you're supposed to get better than Lexxx not worse! Is this following the Star Trek focus on Kirk and ignore everyone else??? Oh wells...repeats ho!
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How about "Fuck ___________! Fuck him/her/them up his/her/their stupid ass/es!" Or is this only funny if your user ID is "Magnolia-Fan", and I got it first?
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Episodes like this are why Andromeda is better then Enterprise (writer's motto "Make sure everything wraps up nice and neat at the end, even if it means destroying your artistic integrity.") Without Wolfe, though, this show is gonna suck.
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Only two more episodes until I stop watching this show no wonder that Kevin Sorbo considers Wolfe's writing to complex and complicated since the guy can't act was it just me or did Sorbo's character looked a little stiff almost cardboard. But the storyline was good I especially like the relationship between Harper and Trance and the situations they were put through my only gripe is where was Rev Brem he was nowhere to be seen at the end of the show especially since the four assasins were attacking the Andromeda.
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Dec 02, 2001 6:32:15 AM CST
More proof that Herc is female: What guy cares about James "Gets
by varietywriter
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Herc = a girl! Drop the pretense, missy, we know what's up!
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Dec 02, 2001 10:14:06 PM CST
Really great episode!!.....too bad Sorbo thinks we're too st
by skeejay
Just when we get a good sci-fi show with an intelligent mythology, Sorbo decides we're too stupid to figure out what's goin on and dumbs it down. Into the Labyrinth rocked, and I can say that even tho I haven't watched any other episodes since the beginning of the season. I'm fucking sick of shows that think all their viewers are too stupid to remember what happened last week, and that's what Andromeda's gonna be. Andromeda was starting to get good, too; I thought it was gonna be damn cool to see this Commonwealth and crew get built up as we watched. Now that ain't gonna happen, and I can guarantee we're not gonna see that board with the Commonwealth-member pogs on it again. Just once give me a sci-fi show that assumes the viewers watching the last episode are the same loyal viewers that watched the first one!
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Harper is usually so hyper on the show that he really needed to "overdo" it for it to appear that he was really worked up over something.
The only thing in recent episodes that seem out of character is how some of the characters on the show are no longer tuning him out and criticizing Harper for acting like "Harper". -
"...Sorbo thinks we're too dumb to understand..."
You've have almost got it. It's not that *we're* too dumb....
Ever since I started watching this show, all my friends have written it off, saying "I just couldn't get past the 'Hercules' thing." I thought they were full of it; not only did his hair-ness not get in the way, but I actually thought he was better in this than in 'that other show'. Now I realize that it's only because someone with some brains was there to make him look good. But we couldn't have that, could we?
I'm just waiting for Harper to turn into his humorous sidekick, with Rev Bem replaced by a bumbling fat man... God, I remember far too much about that show! The writing & sFX were never what drew me to Andromeda; heck, Enterprise or even Voyager had them beat there (well, maybe just the sFX ;) What drew myself and most others to the show was complex storylines and thought provoking concepts, almost like, you know, *SCIENCE FICTION*!? If the plot goes, so do whatever ratings they may have had; the show's just not well-produced enough to stand against the competition.
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